Incendies de Wajdi Mouawad : L’algorithme de Collatz – une « conjecture à résoudre

• Authors: Gancevici Olga
• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

This essay is aimed at a brief exploration of several intermedial aspects of the play Incendies by contemporary writer and director Wajdi Mouawad, who has shown a notable flexibility across multiple media and whose work often takes thoroughly intermedial turns. His writing joins together several media – text, mathematics, photography, virtual staging –, lying, at the same time, at the foundation of various renditions in other fields: staging, cinematographic adaptation, reading performance, or radio recording. The Collatz conjecture becomes a device for both questioning and mediating between the real life of a family and a land that are harrowed and terrorized by war, on the one hand, and an ultimate solution that proves as dilemmatic as inevitable, on the other.

Keywords

EN

drama; film; mathematics; intermediality; (internecine) war

• Publisher: Inter Litteras Research Centre, STEFAN CEL MARE University, Suceava, Romania; STEFAN CEL MARE Publishing House
• Journal: Concordia Discors vs Discordia Concors: Researches into Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, Cross-Cultural and Translation Strategies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 17 (Intermediality: Translation, Adaptation, Performance I)
• Pages: 21-39

Contributors

author

Gancevici Olga

• “Ștefan cel Mare” University of Suceava, Romania